Central Michigan University Athletics
Wednesday, January 23
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CMU Women Hit The Road Again
1/22/2019 7:24:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Chippewas face another of MAC's best defensive teams in Toledo
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Coach Sue Guevara saw something from her Central Michigan women's basketball team in its 82-75 grind-it-out win on Saturday at Kent State that bodes very well.
What she saw was production from the bench, specifically Jaeda Robinson, Kyra Bussell and Gabi Bird. That trio played almost the entire fourth quarter when the Chippewas took control and then held on to improve to 4-1 in the Mid-American Conference and 13-4 overall.
The Chippewas return to the state of Ohio on Wednesday when they play a conference game at Toledo. It is the fourth time that CMU has played on the road in its last five games.
CMU is 3-0 on the road in the MAC. Without the play of its reserves on Saturday at Kent State, it might very well be 2-1.
CMU veterans Presley Hudson and Reyna Frost both battled foul trouble against the Golden Flashes, and both found themselves the target of Guevara's ire.
Hudson and Frost, among the very best to every play at CMU and the linchpins who have keyed the best long-term run in program history, found themselves on the bench. Hudson sat for the entire fourth quarter, while Frost played just one minute of the stanza.
Up stepped the likes of Robinson, Bussell and Bird. Bussell, a sophomore, scored 15 points -- the second-highest total of her career; Robinson logged a season-high 19 points, while Bird was on the court for 16 minutes after averaging about 5 minutes per game over the Chippeaws' last seven starts.
"What that did for me is it gave me a tremendous amount of confidence because our two studettes (Hudson, Frost) are sitting on the bench, but we were better defensively in the fourth quarter," Guevara said. "Credit Gabby, credit Buss and credit Jaeda.
"They're producing. Can they contribute now? It shows me that yes, they can contribute now and down the road when we need them, because it's all about March."
WHERE THEY STAND
The Chippewas lead the MAC West by one game over both the Rockets and Northern Illinois. Toledo is 11-5, 3-2.
POISED TO MAKE HISTORY
Hudson enters Wednesday's game with 1,988 career points. She need 19 to pass Crystal Bradford (2011-15) as the program's all-time leading scorer.
DEFENDING AGAINST 'D'
Toledo ranks second in the MAC in team defense, holding opponents to an average of 59.5 points per game
When the defending MAC champion Chippewas play host to Eastern Michigan on Saturday (1 p.m.), they will encounter an Eagle team that ranks fifth in the league in defense (62.4 points per game).
In CMU's first six MAC games, the Chippewas will have faced the top five defensive teams in the league: No. 1 Miami (Ohio), No. 2 Toledo, No. 3 Akron and No. 4 Kent State along with Eastern Michigan. The outlier is Ohio, which is the league's seventh-best defensive team.
SCOUTING
The Rockets won, 79-65, at Bowling Green on Saturday, outscoring the Falcons 46-24 in the second half after trailing 41-33 at the break.
Mikaela Boyd scored a season-high 25 points, 19 of which came in the second half. Boyd had scored a combined 25 points in Toledo's previous four games.
Kaayla McIntyre, 6-foot-2, leads the Rockets in both scoring (15.3 points per game) and rebounding (7.2).
Boyd and McIntyre, both seniors, have been part of Toledo's nucleus since their arrival and played integral roles on the Rockets' 2016-17 team that won the MAC Tournament.
The impact and the collective longevity that the two have made on the Toledo program is not unlike that of Frost and Hudson on CMU's, Guevara said.
The Chippewas and Rockets have split the six meetings since Frost and Hudson have been at CMU and Boyd and McIntyre have been Rockets. CMU has won the last three.
What she saw was production from the bench, specifically Jaeda Robinson, Kyra Bussell and Gabi Bird. That trio played almost the entire fourth quarter when the Chippewas took control and then held on to improve to 4-1 in the Mid-American Conference and 13-4 overall.
The Chippewas return to the state of Ohio on Wednesday when they play a conference game at Toledo. It is the fourth time that CMU has played on the road in its last five games.
CMU is 3-0 on the road in the MAC. Without the play of its reserves on Saturday at Kent State, it might very well be 2-1.
CMU veterans Presley Hudson and Reyna Frost both battled foul trouble against the Golden Flashes, and both found themselves the target of Guevara's ire.
Hudson and Frost, among the very best to every play at CMU and the linchpins who have keyed the best long-term run in program history, found themselves on the bench. Hudson sat for the entire fourth quarter, while Frost played just one minute of the stanza.
Up stepped the likes of Robinson, Bussell and Bird. Bussell, a sophomore, scored 15 points -- the second-highest total of her career; Robinson logged a season-high 19 points, while Bird was on the court for 16 minutes after averaging about 5 minutes per game over the Chippeaws' last seven starts.
"What that did for me is it gave me a tremendous amount of confidence because our two studettes (Hudson, Frost) are sitting on the bench, but we were better defensively in the fourth quarter," Guevara said. "Credit Gabby, credit Buss and credit Jaeda.
"They're producing. Can they contribute now? It shows me that yes, they can contribute now and down the road when we need them, because it's all about March."
WHERE THEY STAND
The Chippewas lead the MAC West by one game over both the Rockets and Northern Illinois. Toledo is 11-5, 3-2.
POISED TO MAKE HISTORY
Hudson enters Wednesday's game with 1,988 career points. She need 19 to pass Crystal Bradford (2011-15) as the program's all-time leading scorer.
DEFENDING AGAINST 'D'
Toledo ranks second in the MAC in team defense, holding opponents to an average of 59.5 points per game
When the defending MAC champion Chippewas play host to Eastern Michigan on Saturday (1 p.m.), they will encounter an Eagle team that ranks fifth in the league in defense (62.4 points per game).
In CMU's first six MAC games, the Chippewas will have faced the top five defensive teams in the league: No. 1 Miami (Ohio), No. 2 Toledo, No. 3 Akron and No. 4 Kent State along with Eastern Michigan. The outlier is Ohio, which is the league's seventh-best defensive team.
SCOUTING
The Rockets won, 79-65, at Bowling Green on Saturday, outscoring the Falcons 46-24 in the second half after trailing 41-33 at the break.
Mikaela Boyd scored a season-high 25 points, 19 of which came in the second half. Boyd had scored a combined 25 points in Toledo's previous four games.
Kaayla McIntyre, 6-foot-2, leads the Rockets in both scoring (15.3 points per game) and rebounding (7.2).
Boyd and McIntyre, both seniors, have been part of Toledo's nucleus since their arrival and played integral roles on the Rockets' 2016-17 team that won the MAC Tournament.
The impact and the collective longevity that the two have made on the Toledo program is not unlike that of Frost and Hudson on CMU's, Guevara said.
The Chippewas and Rockets have split the six meetings since Frost and Hudson have been at CMU and Boyd and McIntyre have been Rockets. CMU has won the last three.
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